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Current Issue: September/October (Vol. 6, no. 5)

Class of 2005 Salaries & Jobs
Starting salaries are up for new chemistry graduates. But not to what they once were. And the job situation is still rather weak. That's the main story from the American Chemical Society's latest annual survey of the salaries and employment status of new graduates.

Employment & Salary Survey
The latest version of the American Chemical Society's annual survey of the employment status and salaries of its members in the domestic workforce indicates an improvement in the job market as well as a higher-than-inflation gain in the salaries of individual chemists. The survey also takes the first look since 1998 at the fringe benefits received by working chemists.

Data Point: Recently released NSF data show increasing numbers for field-specific, full-time graduate student enrollment in chemistry-related fields at doctorate-granting institutions from 1997 to 2004. For chemistry, the number grew by 15% to 18,000; for biochemistry, the growth was 10% to 5,279; and for chemical engineering, the growth was 10% to 6,346. The number of postdoc appointees at doctorate-granting institutions was also up in 2004 from 1997. In chemistry, the number of postdocs rose by 10% to 4,100, of whom 2,771 are foreign students holding temporary visas.

Source: Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: Fall 2004 (NSF 06-325).

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The U.S. Census Bureau, in partnership with agencies in 29 states, has launched a new service on its web site providing up-to-date statistical information on the job climate in states and local areas. The new program, a resource for job seekers and employers, is called Local Employment Dynamics (LED). Quarterly work force indicators are now available for 19 of the 29 states.